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FAQ

Questions people ask

Everything worth settling before you order. If your question is not here, write to support@jatakapatra.com.

A word before you begin

A Jatakapatra is an interpretation of a birth chart under the rules of classical jyotishya, prepared for reflection and planning. It is not medical, legal, financial or professional advice, and no decision should rest on it alone; for matters of health, money or law, consult the relevant professional. The tradition reads tendencies and their timing, and it speaks plainly and with confidence because that is the voice it was written in — read that confidence as earnest counsel, never as guarantee. Your choices, and their outcomes, remain your own.

Readings are prepared for purchasers 18 and over. Health is read as care and timing.

The reading
What exactly do I receive?

A written PDF, prepared from your exact birth detail and complete as it arrives. It opens on any phone or computer, and the Annual Refresh is the only subscription, taken when you choose it.

What is Prashna, the one question reading?

Prashna, the one question reading, is $1.99. It answers one question fully: the months it falls in, the reason from your birth chart, and what to do. The PDF is in your email within an hour. Ask your question on the form for Darshanam, the free five-week reading, and Prashna is offered to you by email.

What makes it different from a free horoscope?

Timings. Your reading names what is coming and when, question by question, and opens with the years you have already lived.

Which system do you follow?

Classical Vedic jyotishya — sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsha, the Vimshottari dasha system, and the divisional charts each question calls for.

Your birth details
I don’t know my exact birth time.

Give it as closely as you know and mark it approximate. The reading holds time-sensitive statements more loosely and tells you which they are.

What if I only know the date?

Begin with the Darshanam, the free five-week reading. Much of a chart still reads from the date alone.

My birthplace is a small village.

Choose your country and state, then type the village. If the list does not find it, add the postal or PIN code and the chart is cast for that area; without a code it is cast for the middle of the state. Either way your reading says so — reply to the delivery email with the exact village and it is recast.

Can I order for my child, or for someone else?

Yes. Give their birth details and the reading is written for them; readings for children are written to the parent.

Ordering and payment
How do I pay?

Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay through Stripe, and UPI in India. Prices include all taxes, and your local currency shows at checkout. Your card details stay with Stripe.

Do you take discount codes?

Yes — enter it in the Discount code box on the order form, and the discount applies before you pay. One code per order.

Can I add a palm reading later?

Yes. Hasta Samudrika, the palm reading, can be added to any sitting, and read from photographs you provide.

What is the Annual Refresh?

Each year your road is moved forward: the chapter you are in and the next twelve months, month by month. It renews each year — $8.99 a year until you stop it, you can cancel anytime. You receive an email before each renewal, and a single line to support@jatakapatra.com cancels it.

Delivery and after
How does my reading reach me?

As a PDF in your email within an hour, at the address you order with. It is yours to keep, print and pass on. Check the spelling when you order, because that address is where it is sent.

Changing a birth detail

Send any birth detail you would like changed within thirty days and the reading is updated at no charge — that is your correction pass. It covers a birth time you have since checked, the spelling of a name, a place made more exact, or a passage you would like phrased more clearly. A different date, a different city or a different person is a different chart, so that is a new reading at its own price rather than a correction. Moving up to a fuller reading of the same chart is different: there, what you already paid comes off the price. We send you a credit for the full amount with your reading, and it stands for thirty days — the same thirty days as your correction, so there is one date to remember and not two. One code applies to an order, so use whichever saves you more.

Can I get a refund?

Your reading begins the moment you submit it and is written for you alone, so the five-week Darshanam is free and the full sample is published for you to see first. A refund is made in full when your reading is never produced. A reading that does not reach you is resent, free and as often as you need, to another address if you like.

Is my birth information private?

Yes. Your details stay with Jatakapatra, held privately and used to prepare your reading. Write to support@jatakapatra.com with the word DELETE and your reference, and within three working days your details, questions and photographs are erased.

Begin with Darshanam — the free five-week reading

Written from your chart, in your email within 30 minutes — and your kundali with it.